Create digital spaces that empower your members to share

with Open Social's
Community Engagement Platform

Trusted by 1000+ organizations

What community type are you building?

#MadeToConnect

For professionals or experts
connecting to share
knowledge and learnings

#MadeToActivate

For volunteers or citizens
connecting to change the world together

#MadeToSupport

For members who share a unique experience or life circumstance

Open Social solves your
member management challenges

activity & engagement

Tools built for sharing,
communication and collaboration

Open Social gives you all the social features you need for members to share more with one another:

Likes, Comments, Private Messaging and Mentions
Rich user-profiles where members can express themselves
Activity Streams for latest news, events, comments and other content
Groups with unique landing pages membership roles and community spaces
Discussions, Events, Birthdays, Courses, Quizzes and more engagement tools

growth & retention

Make your platform
easy and enjoyable to use

Open Social puts user experience and ease-of-use first — from making sign-up simple to creating seamless workplace tool integrations:

Custom branding, colors and look-and-feel to make members feel at home
Social logins and Single Sign-on for higher platform adoption and repeat usage
Seamless integration with existing organizational systems or workplace tools like Microsoft Office 365
Simple, modern and user-friendly platform interface for site managers and members

collaboration and content creation

Bottom up value creation
by your community

Open Social lets your members generate valuable and impactful content — encouraging collaboration and communication with purpose-built community tools and extensions:

Crowd Innovation lets your community generate solutions to complex real-world challenges
Courses lets you train members and empower your community
Real-time collaboration lets members work together and co-author content
Discussions creates media-rich spaces for sharing knowledge & expertise

KPIs & analytics

Measure and demonstrate
the value of your community

Open Social gives you rich community analytics on every piece of content to help you make data-driven decisions:

Forms and surveys for qualitative feedback from your community
Customizable dashboards for at-a-glance overview of important community activities
Platform analytics measure content engagement, membership activity, platform adoption
Export analytics as spreadsheets

Gain more members & keep them engaged

Simple & safe signup lets you grow and retain membership, while purpose-built features and extensions for sharing drives engagement.

Create a platform tailored to your needs

Easily customize your white-label platform with drag-and-drop page layouts, click-of-a-button content creation and powerful extensions.

Own your data with the power of open-source

Using open-source technology lets you build a community using transparent and safe digital tools. Own your platform and it’s data.

Join the 1000+ communities
making their story share-ific!

We have helped big and small organizations across the globe create communities that drive real-world change.

Creating Pathways to Sustainable Development

SDG Philanthropy

The SDG Philanthropy platform is a global UNDP community dedicated to solving sustainable development goals (SDGs). With the help of Open Social, it builds the bridge between the UN, governments and the private sector by encouraging collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

“We are an online collaboration platform that provides access to information on what partners are doing, real-time data on relevant SDGs, and events and solutions that funders and others are supporting. We add curated, targeted information every week, with a growing, connected audience.”

Connecting students, alumni and staff

Holmesglen Institute

Holmesglen Institute uses Open Social to provide students with the tools for learning and living, and deepening relationships between the students, staff, and alumni.

“We want students to feel that this is their space to ask questions, form study or social groups, and share placement experiences.”

Bring experts together

United Nations Development Program

SparkBlue brings thousands of professionals and experts across the UNDP together.

“By building SparkBlue on top of their existing Open Social platform, we could enhance SparkBlue with a number of Open Social community engagement and collaboration extensions.”

Bottom-up policy advice

Foraus

Policy Kitchen is a policy innovation platform that creatively crowd-sources ideas and solutions to national foreign policies. It’s an initiative from Foraus.

“The Open social platform, and especially the ideation feature we’ve built on top of it, is disrupting the way we create bottom-up policy advice in an international network.”

We work closely with you to make your platform a success

Still not convinced?
This is what our clients think about us

9.3

NPS Mean Score
last 90 days

 4.6/5

4.7 / 5

And see what Open Social will look like with your branding and customized to align with your goals and use cases.

98%

Customer satisfaction

95%

Recommends Open Social

Platform of the year 2020

Read our latest blog posts
that are #madetoshare

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